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Hint	Name	% Correct
16th president of the United States, serving from 1861 until his assassination in 1865	Abraham Lincoln	100%
Scottish economist and philosopher who was a pioneer in the field of political economy and key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment	Adam Smith	100%
Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany during the Nazi era from 1933 until his suicide in 1945	Adolf Hitler	100%
A king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon	Alexander the Great	100%
Founder of the Roman Empire who reigned as the first Roman emperor from 27 BCE until his death in 14 CE	Augustus	100%
Empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796	Catherine the Great	100%
King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Emperor of what is now known as the Carolingian Empire from 800	Charlemagne	100%
Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish transatlantic in the name of the Catholic monarchs, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas	Christopher Columbus	100%
Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BCE and the last active Hellenistic pharaoh	Cleopatra	100%
Chinese philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period who is traditionally considered the paragon of Chinese sages	Confucius	100%
Italian poet, writer, and philosopher; his Divine Comedy is widely considered one of the most important poems of the Middle Ages and one of the greatest literary works in the Italian language	Dante Alighieri	100%
Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603	Elizabeth I	100%
Founder and first khan of the Mongol Empire	Genghis Khan	100%
Founding Father and the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797	George Washington	100%
American industrialist and business magnate; founder of the Ford Motor Company and is credited as a pioneer in making automobiles affordable for middle-class Americans	Henry Ford	100%
Ancient Greek poet who is widely credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature	Homer	100%
English polymath who was a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, author, and inventor	Isaac Newton	100%
First-century Jewish preacher and religious leader in the Roman province of Judaea	Jesus	100%
English musician, songwriter, and activist who was the founder, co-lead vocalist, and rhythm guitarist of an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960	John Lennon	100%
Soviet revolutionary and politician who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953	Joseph Stalin	100%
Roman general, statesman, and author who was the dictator of the Roman Republic almost continuously from 49 BCE until his assassination in 44 BCE	Julius Caesar	100%
German philosopher, social and political theorist, economist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist	Karl Marx	100%
Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect	Leonardo da Vinci	100%
Chinese poet acclaimed as one of the greatest and most important poets of the Tang dynasty, and even in the whole of Chinese poetry	Li Bai	100%
German composer and pianist; mentored during the Classical period and incorporated more complex structure and emotion in his later works	Ludwig van Beethoven	100%
Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule and later inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.	Mahatma Gandhi	100%
Ninth Mansa of the Mali Empire, which reached its territorial peak during his reign	Mansa Musa	100%
Chinese revolutionary, politician, writer, political theorist, and the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC).	Mao Zedong	100%
Arab religious, military, and political leader, as well as the founder of Islam	Muhammad	100%
Emperor of the French from 18 May 1804 until his first abdication in 1814, with a brief restoration during the Hundred Days in 1815	Napoleon	100%
South African anti-apartheid activist and politician who was the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999	Nelson Mandela	100%
Ancient Greek philosopher of Classical Athens who is most commonly considered the foundational thinker of the Western philosophical tradition	Plato	100%
Ancient Greek philosopher from Classical Athens, perhaps the first Western moral philosopher, and a major inspiration on his student Plato, who largely founded the tradition of Western philosophy	Socrates	100%
Wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in the eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism	The Buddha	100%
American inventor and businessman; developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, sound recording, and motion pictures	Thomas Edison	100%
Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art	Vincent van Gogh	100%
Ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period; composed three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid	Virgil	100%
English playwright, poet, and actor; widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist	William Shakespeare	100%
Classical composer and musician; completed more than 800 works in his life, including symphonies, concertos, chamber music, opera, and choral music	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	100%
Third Mughal emperor who reigned from 1556 to 1605	Akbar	67%
German-born theoretical physicist who is best known for developing the theory of relativity	Albert Einstein	67%
Fourth Rashidun caliph who ruled from 656 CE until his assassination in 661, as well as the first Shia Imam	Ali	67%
Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath; his writings span the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the arts	Aristotle	67%
English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology	Charles Darwin	67%
English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film	Charlie Chaplin	67%
Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, orator, and writer who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises of the Roman Republic that led to the establishment of the Roman Empire	Cicero	67%
English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing	Florence Nightingale	67%
Italian astronomer, physicist, and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath	Galileo Galilei	67%
English musician who was the lead guitarist of an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960	George Harrison	67%
The sixth Amorite king of the Old Babylonian Empire, reigning from c. 1792 to c. 1750 BCE	Hammurabi	67%
Prussian-born German philosopher; considered one of the central thinkers of the Enlightenment	Immanuel Kant	67%
German inventor and craftsman who invented the movable-type printing press	Johannes Gutenberg	67%
German composer and musician of the late Baroque period; known for his prolific output across a variety of instruments and forms, including the orchestral Brandenburg Concertos	Johann Sebastian Bach	67%
Russian writer; regarded as one of the greatest and most influential authors of all time	Leo Tolstoy	67%
American jazz and blues trumpeter and vocalist; among the most influential figures in jazz, with a five decade career spanning several eras in the history of the genre	Louis Armstrong	67%
Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist; shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband	Marie Curie	67%
German priest, theologian, author, hymnwriter, professor, and former Augustinian friar	Martin Luther	67%
Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance.	Michelangelo	67%
Florentine diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian who lived during the Italian Renaissance	Niccolò Machiavelli	67%
Renaissance polymath who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center	Nicolaus Copernicus	67%
Serbian-American engineer, futurist, and inventor; known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system	Nikola Tesla	67%
Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France	Pablo Picasso	67%
English musician and songwriter who was the bassist and keyboardist of, as well as co-lead vocalist for an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960	Paul McCartney	67%
Founder of the Qin dynasty and the first emperor of China	Qin Shi Huang	67%
Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman	Rembrandt	67%
English musician, singer, songwriter, and actor who was the drummer for an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960	Ringo Starr	67%
Venezuelan statesman and military officer who led what are currently the countries of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Panama, and Bolivia to independence from the Spanish Empire	Simón Bolívar	67%
Ottoman sultan from 1520 to 1566	Suleiman the Magnificent	67%
Turco-Mongol conqueror, first ruler of the Timurid dynasty, and the founder of the Timurid Empire, which ruled over modern-day Afghanistan, Iran, and Central Asia	Timur	67%
French Enlightenment writer, philosophe, satirist, and historian	Voltaire	67%
American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur	Walt Disney	67%
Indian Vedic scholar and monk, philosopher, and acharya of Advaita Vedanta	Adi Shankara	33%
English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist	Alan Turing	33%
Mathematician active during the Islamic Golden Age, who produced Arabic-language works in mathematics, astronomy, and geography	Al-Khwarizmi	33%
French nobleman and chemist who was central to the 18th-century chemical revolution and who had a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology	Antoine Lavoisier	33%
Emperor of Magadha from c. 268 BCE until their death and the third ruler from the Mauryan dynasty	Ashoka	33%
Preeminent philosopher and physician of the Muslim world; a seminal figure of the Islamic Golden Age, serving in the courts of various Iranian rulers, and was influential to medieval European medical and Scholastic thought	Avicenna	33%
German mathematician, astronomer, geodesist, and physicist who contributed to many fields in mathematics and science	Carl Friedrich Gauss	33%
Founder of the Achaemenid Empire	Cyrus the Great	33%
Russian chemist known for formulating the periodic law and creating a version of the periodic table of elements	Dmitri Mendeleev	33%
Ancient Greek mathematician active as a geometer and logician; considered the "father of geometry", he is chiefly known for the Elements treatise, which established the foundations of geometry that largely dominated the field until the early 19th century	Euclid	33%
Greek physician and philosopher of the classical period who is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine	Hippocrates	33%
Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period active as a painter and printmaker	Hokusai	33%
Arab scholar, historian, philosopher, and sociologist; widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest social scientists of the Middle Ages, and is considered by a number of scholars to be a major forerunner of historiography, sociology, economics, and demography studies	Ibn Khaldun	33%
Scottish physicist and mathematician who was responsible for the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation, which was the first theory to describe electricity, magnetism, and light as different manifestations of the same phenomenon	James Clerk Maxwell	33%
English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of the Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism"	John Locke	33%
Logician, mathematician, and philosopher; considered to be one of the most significant logicians in history and profoundly influenced scientific and philosophical thinking in the 20th century	Kurt Gödel	33%
Swiss polymath who was active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, logician, geographer, music theorist, and engineer	Leonhard Euler	33%
French chemist, pharmacist, and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization	Louis Pasteur	33%
English writer and philosopher best known for her advocacy of women's rights	Mary Wollstonecraft	33%
English chemist and physicist who contributed to the study of electrochemistry and electromagnetism	Michael Faraday	33%
American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist; widely regarded as one of the most culturally significant figures of the 20th century	Michael Jackson	33%
Japanese novelist, poet, and lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court in the Heian period	Murasaki Shikibu	33%
Bengali polymath (specifically a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter) of the Bengal Renaissance period	Rabindranath Tagore	33%
Third pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt	Ramesses II	33%
French philosopher, scientist, logician, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science during the Renaissance era	René Descartes	33%
Sufi mystic, poet, and founder of the Islamic brotherhood known as the Mevlevi Order	Rumi	33%
Chinese polymath, scientist, and statesman of the Northern Song dynasty	Shen Kuo	33%
Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies seen as originating from conflicts in the psyche through dialogue between patient and psychoanalyst, and the distinctive theory of mind and human agency derived from it	Sigmund Freud	33%
The only undisputed female sovereign in the history of China; held power as the empress consort of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang dynasty from 660 to 683 and as empress dowager during the reigns of her sons, Emperors Zhongzong and Ruizong, between 683 and 690	Wu Zetian	33%

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